On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT), Douglas Eagleson
wrote:

High land to the west of china makes attack from that direction a
scenario China will never overcome.

That's one big pile of empty rocks. You can pound that to kingdom
come and all you will do is move them rocks around. From that
direction to get to the populated areas is a couple of thousand miles
of hostile defended territory. Lots of opportunity to take out
intruders in that shooting gallery including something as cost free as
bothering and distracting them long enough for them to run out of
fuel.

An attack from the East Coast? How many planes can you launch from a
Carrier battle Group that will make an impression. How do you protect
a CVBG from land based anti-ship missiles and from airborne ones?